 Hey guys, we are here for homemade inks and things take two We already did a video on the coffee ink. I and how to do that and I've done a few other random ink videos Along the way, but I'll link the coffee ink video in the description below That's what this is. I get asked a lot almost every Almost every day sometimes depending on how many views the video is getting how much glycerin I put in here about a tablespoon And I've never had a problem with it getting moldy or anything like that. It's been fine This is one I've done in a similar fashion now This of course is not made with food not of course you wouldn't know that but this is done in a similar fashion This is done with pencil shavings and again the ratio of The homemade ink to waters about the same I make the ink and then I put about a tablespoon of glycerin in it for about This size bottle at how many ounces is this do we even know this is eight ounce bottle So about a tablespoon for every eight ounces It'll slow down the drying time of the ink, but it will also keep it from evaporating and getting moldy So whether you're doing the coffee or the pencil shavings do it about the same once you make them Here's a quick tip right on the bottle what it is With your label maker or a Sharpie I have this box of fine liners and things that I actually have to clean out and go through and I've got all of these different like concoctions Most of these are paint I think But none of them are labeled so I don't remember what it was or why I did it or yeah someday. I'm gonna have to Go through this. I've got perfect. I got pearl is it pearl pens? In here, I forgot those were in here paper pens Paper they're yeah, they're by Viva decor Anyway, they're all these things For doodling anyway forgot they were in there, so I'm gonna clean that out So there's that this little thing here is by Derwent this is intended for use with Ink tents blocks. This is basically a jar with a greater inside of it See if I can open it without Here we go. Oh, there we go about spilling it everywhere So it's a jar that has like a cheese grater type of thing on the top Can you see that and you grate your ink tents block Into the jar and put water in there and you make kind of an ink thing with it now I didn't buy this this little jar thing is kind of expensive if you buy at regular price Some places it goes for $25 I found it for 90 percent off at a local shop that was Clearancing I meant they only had the one left the packaging was messed up on it. I got it for 25 cents. Okay When all was said and done so Yeah, because otherwise I wouldn't have bought it now because it has the greater top I can use it like a strainer and I can Make my pencil shaving inks in here so what I've done is emptied all of my pencil sharpeners into this little jar and It all regular ones water soluble ones. It doesn't matter. I put them all in the jar. I poured water in there and then I used the little school Okay, this this is actually for working with metal and Making actually jewelry and beads and things but I used it to sort of crush my pencil shavings down into the water crush them up And then I added a little bit more water put the lid on it and let it soak. It's been soaking for a few days and Now I can pour it off into My pencil shaving ink jar Carefully I'm gonna need a funnel. I'll be right back. Let me go get one Okay, I found some more pencil shavings while I was looking for a funnel So I'll show you what I was talking about before first. We're gonna dump this into our jar By just doing this and the nice thing about this little container is now it's gonna strain out all the shavings Which I always had trouble with doing before There we go So every time I add some to this I'll put you know, I don't know for this size jar Maybe like a quarter of a teaspoon worth of glycerin in there. Let's do find the glycerin Here we go So and you can get glycerin in the pharmacy department of pretty much any store No, I don't measure anything. I just kind of do that put a squirt in we'll seal this up Give it a shake Now on this here, we're gonna open this back up again Let's put this on and screw that now we have all these pencil shavings in here from before I think I'm actually gonna leave them. I might get a little more ink out of them I found this little container of shavings. I forgot I had See that's what happens is I start saving the shavings To make some ink and then if I don't do it right away. I forget I've got them and I've got little Boxes of shavings everywhere So then we're gonna put some water in here, and it's not full, but I'm gonna Smush them down Think if it is using a mortar and pestle to make pesto sauce if you cook, you know what that it means You're gonna just grind it and smush them up Trying to get extra ink out of those shavings put the lid on okay, give it a shake And then let it sit for a couple of days just put it aside and let it sit for a couple of days and Though pencil shavings will dissolve into the water You'll get something nice and black and inky when you use it it dries a little bit lighter Like any other watercolor paint or water soluble paint generally does so it dries to like a light gray color But it's really really pretty color. It's fun to do splattery things with and to paint with This is now going to be my art funnel So now the last thing I need to do is I need to label these so make sure you label them Think outside the box a little bit What do you have laying around your house or your art room that you can use to make your own sort of? Inky Painty products with things to stain paper and to do fun paintings with what can what can you use that you already have? Think about it look around and have some fun with it. Don't forget the most important thing Have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it, and I'll see you later. Bye